Key Takeaways:

• Catalogs hundreds of plants used in Indigenous North American herbal practice, summarizing traditional applications, preparations, and sometimes spiritual associations.
• Helps preserve ethnobotanical knowledge at a time when many Native healing traditions were marginalized or threatened by assimilation and medicalization.
• Serves as a bridge text between folk herbalism and more formal Western herbals, shaping how later herbalists, naturopaths, and lay readers understood “Indian remedies.”